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Sumatran cubs Stripe and Spot, reared by a tiger expert in his home, seemed to be part of an animal Truman Show

Tigers About the House
BBC Two
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The Dentists
ITV
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If working with children and animals tends to make TV gold, then working with
child-animals tends to make TV titanium. So surely Tigers About the House
— in which we would watch two Sumatran tiger cubs being hand-reared by a
tiger expert and his family — would provide as many aaahs as a Phil Neville
commentary provides zzzs?

Indeed, the first part (two more follow tonight and tomorrow) generated
infinite cuteness and infinite questions. As we watched the newborns spend
their first weeks en famille with Giles Clark (a British tiger